<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very entrenched in where I'm at and what I'm doing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very entrenched in where I'm at and what I'm doing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave you to be lost in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55263]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a "down-payment", on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to recertify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to recertify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning. We are certainly optimistic about the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile   That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197]]></link><description><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601]]></link><description><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly more-than-expected margin weakness and lower cash flow is unlikely to be taken well. Our sell rating is maintained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47519]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the finite an unreality, an intrusion? The mystic soul may impatiently think so, but the moral soul finds such mediation the way to reality; and the mystic experience is not quite trustworthy about reality. The pagan gods had no mediators, because they were not real or good gods; but the living God has a living Revealer. To know the living God is to know Christ; to know Christ is to know the living God. We do not know God by Christ but in Him. We find God when we find Christ; and in Christ alone we know and share his final purpose. Our last knowledge is not the contact of our person with a thing or a thought; it is intercourse of person and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they lost Brodie they lost their leader and maybe lost some confidence throwing the ball. But obviously this year they've opened their offense up. They are taking their shots deep. Their receivers, I was impressed with them last year as a great group freshmen and now this year they've all made plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the wisest counselor of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the wisest counselor of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599</guid></item></channel></rss>